The best thing about waking up in the middle of the night with insomnia is that I finally had time to read this!
Season 4 absolutely made this show for me. I adored Avatar, but Aang as a character never really captured my heart. His struggle to find a way to contain Ozai without killing him was really moving and important for me, but even that interested me more on a philosophical level than as a story about Aang personally. The characters who kept me showing up episode after episode were Zuko and Katara -- and I think that's because the show allowed them to struggle with loss and anger in a more complicated way.
So I spent three seasons of Korra basically going "Yay, she's a kick-ass character who kicks ass! Whee, isn't this fun! Okay, so… is that all there is?" I just kept getting annoyed with the show's fumbles and there wasn't a character I cared passionately about to keep me engaged.
No one is happier than I am that Korra herself suddenly turned out to be that character! And I wish for Korra's sake and for mine that it didn't require suffering on that level to get me to really identify with her, but it is what it is.
Anyway, add in Kuvira and all the Bei Fong family dynamics and I could just watch Season 4 over and over again. And absolutely, the season doesn't stand alone -- its impact is necessarily grounded in everything that came before, but the payoff in Season 4 is the only part that I need to wallow in.
(This concludes the insomniac ramblings of a random stranger in your journal. *g* )
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Season 4 absolutely made this show for me. I adored Avatar, but Aang as a character never really captured my heart. His struggle to find a way to contain Ozai without killing him was really moving and important for me, but even that interested me more on a philosophical level than as a story about Aang personally. The characters who kept me showing up episode after episode were Zuko and Katara -- and I think that's because the show allowed them to struggle with loss and anger in a more complicated way.
So I spent three seasons of Korra basically going "Yay, she's a kick-ass character who kicks ass! Whee, isn't this fun! Okay, so… is that all there is?" I just kept getting annoyed with the show's fumbles and there wasn't a character I cared passionately about to keep me engaged.
No one is happier than I am that Korra herself suddenly turned out to be that character! And I wish for Korra's sake and for mine that it didn't require suffering on that level to get me to really identify with her, but it is what it is.
Anyway, add in Kuvira and all the Bei Fong family dynamics and I could just watch Season 4 over and over again. And absolutely, the season doesn't stand alone -- its impact is necessarily grounded in everything that came before, but the payoff in Season 4 is the only part that I need to wallow in.
(This concludes the insomniac ramblings of a random stranger in your journal. *g* )